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hey how's it going Dave 2d here so the p20 and the p20 pro are phones that you probably know by now because of their cameras the p20 pro in particular has the highest score in the smartphone market right now so I'm gonna focus most of this video on the p20 Pro not so much the p20 still a great phone still a great camera but my experience that I want to talk about is with the p20 Pro okay before we get into the camera I want to spend like a minute talking with the phone as a whole AMOLED screen is really nice it's bright and the colors are on point at first I was disappointed at the lower resolution it's not a 1440p screen it's a 1080p screen but I think they made the right choice because for one it extends battery life and the image looks really really good on the screen despite the lower resolution the other thing I really like about this phone is the battery life if they claim it to be a 2-day battery I wouldn't go so as far as to call it that but it'll easily pass one day of battery life even with heavy use the cure 970 in here isn't the fastest chip out there the snapdragon 845 is faster but it is still a really fast chip if I'm being honest though I feel like this chip does GIMP the camera a little bit you lose stuff like image stabilization at higher frame rates and higher resolutions but it is a fast and powerful chip otherwise the software emui I don't love it there's still some duplicate apps but for skin it's not bad the last I want to talk about is the color of the device so a lot of the publications and videos that you've seen have the Twilight color which looks really good in photos and even better in videos but realistically speaking it's a very obnoxious color like if you think you've actually buying one of these things for personal use I'd go for a black or blue and maybe skin it because that Twilight color is just it's loud okay the camera the reason why even got this phone was because of the camera it's gotten a ton of praise from publications and based on the DxO mark it's gonna be a better camera than the pixel to excel and the galaxy s 9 plus but I have to use this thing for three weeks I gotta say it's a great camera but it's not for me let me explain why now first there's one really cool thing about this camera system it's the low-light photography a lot of companies talk a big toss when it comes to low-light photos but the p20 pro is phenomenal for low-light images it uses something called night shot and the way that works is that you hold your camera still for a little bit it collects some image data software analyzes it and in terms to this really clean image it's really impressive to me and it seems pretty simple but it's super smart and I wouldn't be surprised if other phone companies just rip this idea off because it is really good now the camera on the whole is a very good camera but the image processing can be way too aggressive for my taste whenever there's a face in the photo in portrait or even in photo mode whatever they're applying to the image just doesn't look good to me the faces look really plastic to me and even the skin tone feels off the pixel too and the s-line plus cameras have this nice warmth to the skin not that it's like a reddish warmth or anything like that there's just like there's something about the skin that looks more natural I guess on the s9 and the pixel to accel cameras on the p20 Pro there's this greeny waxy tint to the skin of these issues are even more pronounced with my kid now he's really young a lot of facial expression when you're young comes from the subtle lighting differences on the skin and the p20 Pro removes a lot of it and this is what the beauty level set to zero which I honestly think is the big problem if it's set to zero it should be zero like it shouldn't exist at all but you can't remove it like you can't disable that beautifying feature from the automatic bones you can remove it if you're willing to shoot raw in pro mode but that means you have to spend the time to dial in each photo and then tweak your raw file and post but that's just not what most people want that's certainly not what I want I want a camera that can take a good photo particularly of skin in automatic mode and this camera just doesn't do it very well now I've been told that in the Asian market there's this obsession with having perfect skin when it comes to smartphone camera so they have this big emphasis on skin smoothing but there should be the ability to turn it off completely and there isn't because even at zero there's a pretty thick coat of like beauty sauce or whatever they're putting on this thing now the camera in daylight photos is also a little over sharp and sometimes and I'm gonna crop it again to show it but if there's an area of very high contrast something just looks off it's just too sharp it just looks artificial and it's a look that I think some people might like but again it's just not for me fortunately this isn't in every photo most of the daylight photos it took it looked really good but I wouldn't say that they looked significantly better than the photos it took on the pixel to excel or the Samsung s 9 Plus which was a little weird because that DXL mark was just so much higher than the other two camera so I thought there would be a significant difference but I didn't really to be one I'm not saying that the p20 Pro is a bad camera or a bad phone far from it I think it's a great camera I think it's a great phone but I think that DXL mark score is not really representative of how good the camera actually is so when you look at DxO mark I mean mark has did a great video on this but it's like they're trying to create an objective rating for smartphone cameras but it has its limitations the processing that you're seeing in this camera clearly excels that's going well in the test but for the images that I take I just don't find the images to look all that pleasing so if you're someone that takes a lot of low-light photos this is a great camera it's probably the best camera for low-light photos but if you're someone that takes photos and you don't mind some heavy-handed processing also a great camera also a great phone but if you're someone that takes a lot of photos of people like if you have family members friends or if you're a parent and you take a lot of photos of your kids I just don't think it's the ideal camera for it I would recommend the pixel to excel or the Samsung S 9 plus because those have better cameras to me for a human skin okay hope you guys enjoy this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time